Allen Zhai is a professional badminton coach from Guang Xi Province, Southern China. He was rated as a First Class Athlete in China. He participated in various world – class tournaments; Notably the China open 1991, where he made it to the 2nd round of the tournament to face Rashid Sidek from Malaysia, the world-ranking #1 seed at that time. In China he competed against the former Chinese #1 player, Zhao Jianhua, being defeated only by a single point in the match. He reached the finals in various championships in both China and Quebec, winning prestigious trophies.

**************************************************************************** In 2015-2016 Allen coached Andrew Choi who won the gold medal in doubles and Eliana-Ruobing Zhang who won the bronze medal in singles at the Canadian championship in Toronto on March 11- 13.

In addition Andrew, Eliana, Hou Han Zhang, Francis Plante and Brandon Ma won many compétitions or were finalists at the various provincial tournaments.

Eliana was named athlete of the month twice in 2016 and she won twice the triple crown at provincial tournaments.

Allen was named coach by excellence at the provincial Black Knight / Ashaway tournament, which took place on Feb 12- 14, 2016 at Pierrefonds.

In 2014-2015 Allen became the head coach of the Badminton club of Pierrefonds and personally coached Eliana-Ruobing Zhang, Andrew Choi and Eddie Yang all winners and finalists at the Provincial championship.

Eliana won 3 gold medals at the provincial championships in Sherbrooke city. She won gold medals in singles competition Benjamin, mixed competition Benjamin and doubles competition cadet. In January, 2015 she won a triple crown at a provincial tournament and was athlete of the month for the province of Quebec.

Eddie Yang won the gold medal in doubles competition at the Benjamin level.

Andrew Choi won 2 bronze medals in simgles and doubles cadet level. He won a triple crown at a provincial tournament in December 2014, at the provincial level and was named athlete of the month for the province of Quebec.